Film Review – I Give It a Year

Romantic comedies have it rough these days, but most invite misery
through absurdly pedestrian screenwriting and dismal, overly vanilla
casting. The British production “I Give It a Year” manages to indulge a
touch of warmth via carefully managed bitterness, dissecting the genre
to locate ideal notes of distress and embarrassment to play. In danger
of becoming yet another relationship picture that misunderstands the
Richard Curtis formula, the movie instead acquires its own personality
of vulgar humor and matrimonial inspection, delivering on laughs and
knowing cohabitational nods as it makes an agreeable screen mess of
emotions and impulses, carried largely by an ensemble clearly enjoying
the opportunity to send up the foibles of coupledom.
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